The Banker’s Secret (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THE Banker's dinner is the stateliest feastThe town has heard of for a year, at least;The sparry lustres shed their ...
Puns Poems (38 Poems)
An After-Dinner Poem (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
(TERPSICHORE)Read at the Annual Dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, atCambridge, August 24, 1843.IN narrowest girdle, O reluctant Muse,In ...
Retaliation: (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
Of old, when Scarron his companions invited, Each guest brought his dish, and the feast was united; If our landlord supplies us ...
My Lady’s Lamantation And Complaint Against The Dean (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Sure never did man seeA wretch like poor Nancy,So teazed day and nightBy a Dean and a Knight.To punish my ...
Everyday Characters I – The Vicar (Winthrop Mackworth Praed Poems)
Some years ago, ere time and tasteHad turned our parish topsy-turvy,When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste,And roads as little known ...
Everyday Characters II – Quince (Winthrop Mackworth Praed Poems)
Fallentis semita vit*. - Hor.Near a small village in the West,Where many very worthy peopleEat, drink, play whist, and do ...
The Vicar (Winthrop Mackworth Praed Poems)
SOME years ago, ere time and tasteHad turn'd our parish topsy-turvy,When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste,And roads as little known ...
HERE I sit with my paper. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
HERE I sit with my paper, my pen my ink,First of this thing, and that thing,and t'other thing think ;I ...
Fit The Second – The Bellman’s Speech (Lewis Carroll Poems)
The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies—Such a carriage, such ease and such grace!Such solemnity, too! One could ...
Verses For After-Dinner (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, 1844I WAS thinking last night, as I sat in the cars,With the charmingest prospect of cinders ...
The Funny Little fellow (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
'Twas a Funny Little Fellow Of the very purest type,For he had a heart as mellow As an apple over ripe;And the ...
To A Friend In London, Upon My Returning To College (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
While You, dear Tom, in London City,Associate with the fair and witty,And, gayly rambling o'er the Town,Take the brisk Juice ...
The Dean’s Answer (Jonathan Swift Poems)
The nymph who wrote this in an amorous fit,I cannot but envy the pride of her wit,Which thus she will ...
To A Friend In London (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Well dost thou ask me in thy friendly Lays,How in this factious Place I spend my Days:Why briefly thus; as ...
Jesse Covington (John Charles McNeill Poems)
If I have had some merry timesIn roaming up and down the earth,Have made some happy-hearted rhymesAnd had my brimming ...
On the Same Again. (Epigram On Dr. Crassus) (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Crassus one Evening (as 'tis oft his Doom)Was made the publick Butt of all the Room,Backside and foreside upon him ...
The Emigrants: Book I (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Scene, on the Cliffs to the Eastward of the Town ofBrighthelmstone in Sussex. Time, a Morning in November, 1792.Slow in ...
Of Verbal Criticism (David Mallet Poems)
Among the numerous fools, by Fate design'd Oft to disturb, and oft divert, mankind, The reading coxcomb is of special ...
The Dunciad: Book I. (Alexander Pope Poems)
The Mighty Mother, and her son who brings The Smithfield muses to the ear of kings, I sing. Say you, ...
The Wish (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
Our English Homer in his Rhimes,Asserts our Notions change with Times;This Maxim granted, makes me doubt,When some few Years are ...
A Dreamer’s Paradise (Alexander Anderson Poems)
"Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke,Forget the spreading of the hideous town."—The Earthly ParadiseYes, William Morris, it were well ...
Ducks (Frank W Harvey Poems)
IFrom troubles of the world I turn to ducks,Beautiful comical thingsSleeping or curledTheir heads beneath white wingsBy water cool,Or finding ...
Ducks (Frederick William Harvey Poems)
FROM troubles of the worldI turn to ducks,Beautiful comical thingsSleeping or curledTheir heads beneath white wingsBy water cool,Or finding curious ...
Love Versus Learning (Constance Naden Poems)
ALAS, for the blight of my fancies! Alas, for the fall of my pride! I planned, in my girlish romances, ...
The Challenge: A Court Ballad (Alexander Pope Poems)
I. To one fair lady out of Court,And two fair ladies in,Who think the Turk and Pope a sport,And wit ...
Rhyme Of One (Frederick Locker-Lampson Poems)
You sleep upon your mother's breast,Your race begun,A welcome, long a wished-for Guest,Whose age is One.A Baby-Boy, you wonder whyYou ...
Verses To John Tupper (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
DEAR Jack Alack! A few days back I bound myself by oath to smack My lips o'er sloshy tea, and ...
The Butterfly (Arun Kolatkar Poems)
There is no story behind it.It is split like a second.It hinges around itself.It has no future.It is pinned down ...
Phantasmagoria CANTO V ( Byckerment ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
"DON'T they consult the 'Victims,' though?" I said. "They should, by rights, Give them a chance - because, you know, ...
Fit the Second ( Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Bellman's Speech The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies-- Such a carriage, such ease and such grace! ...